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Ben Fry
Issue date: 11/6/07 Section: News
Although the Springfield News-leader is no longer available to Missouri State campus wide, next semester, students may have more options when wanting to read the paper.
Tonight, the Student Government Association may vote to launch a trial run of the USA Today Collegiate Readership Program. Sen. Ashley Hoyer said if passed, the pilot program will begin early next semester.
Last Tuesday, USA Today representatives Katie Pesha and Mary Beth Risley, spoke to SGA about the benefits of the program. If adopted, students would have a choice of three newspapers to be made available around campus.
"The ideal model is a local, regional and national newspaper, so you get different editorial points of view and different news coverage with that," Risley said. The determination of newspapers would be made by student surveys during the four week pilot program.
According to Risley, the three newspapers would be distributed daily except for the weekends and holidays, about 150 academic days a year. To ensure newspaper availability is geared strictly toward students, distribution would come in two forms, along with recycling bins.
Open-air displays, where someone can easily pick newspapers up off a rack, would be placed in residence halls. Displays in public areas, like academic buildings and the Plaster Student Union, would be closed and require the swipe of a ZipCard to open.
"Since the newspapers are for the students, we want to make sure that's who's picking up the newspapers," Risley said. She added that the card reader on closed displays is battery operated and therefore cannot record any information from the ZipCard.
Pesha said due to the cost of these displays, they will not be available for the pilot program. Open displays will take their place during this time.
Besides choosing the newspapers, the university would have the freedom to choose the location of the displays and what advertising and decorations would go on the them. "This is your program," Risley said. "You tell us how you want it run and what you want done with it."
Tonight, the Student Government Association may vote to launch a trial run of the USA Today Collegiate Readership Program. Sen. Ashley Hoyer said if passed, the pilot program will begin early next semester.
Last Tuesday, USA Today representatives Katie Pesha and Mary Beth Risley, spoke to SGA about the benefits of the program. If adopted, students would have a choice of three newspapers to be made available around campus.
"The ideal model is a local, regional and national newspaper, so you get different editorial points of view and different news coverage with that," Risley said. The determination of newspapers would be made by student surveys during the four week pilot program.
According to Risley, the three newspapers would be distributed daily except for the weekends and holidays, about 150 academic days a year. To ensure newspaper availability is geared strictly toward students, distribution would come in two forms, along with recycling bins.
Open-air displays, where someone can easily pick newspapers up off a rack, would be placed in residence halls. Displays in public areas, like academic buildings and the Plaster Student Union, would be closed and require the swipe of a ZipCard to open.
"Since the newspapers are for the students, we want to make sure that's who's picking up the newspapers," Risley said. She added that the card reader on closed displays is battery operated and therefore cannot record any information from the ZipCard.
Pesha said due to the cost of these displays, they will not be available for the pilot program. Open displays will take their place during this time.
Besides choosing the newspapers, the university would have the freedom to choose the location of the displays and what advertising and decorations would go on the them. "This is your program," Risley said. "You tell us how you want it run and what you want done with it."
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Ashley Hoyer
posted 11/05/07 @ 10:58 PM CST
Small Correction: "In her cabinet report, Hoyer mentioned the possibility of funding of this program to come from the Wyrick Fund..."
Definitely not the wyrick fund as a whole--a possible reallocation. (Continued…)
A. Rooney
posted 2/24/08 @ 6:58 PM CST
College Newspapers- beware the USA Today and the NY Times Collegiate Readership programs and the new Quadrantone on line advertising platform. The Big boys want your college newspaper advertisers and they want you college newspaper readers. (Continued…)
haha
posted 2/25/08 @ 11:13 PM CST
I'm not really sure that I would mind the Standard being beat into submission...maybe then it'd be forced to actually report something worth reading.. (Continued…)
Rob
posted 2/26/08 @ 12:04 PM CST
Why don't they have that scrolling marquee of MSU athletics scores and other news headlines up yet like Orlando promised?
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